{"id":32740,"date":"2023-08-14T10:04:48","date_gmt":"2023-08-14T17:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=32740"},"modified":"2023-08-14T10:04:48","modified_gmt":"2023-08-14T17:04:48","slug":"juvenile-ospreys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=32740","title":{"rendered":"Juvenile ospreys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Two juvenile ospreys have left the nest just this week. It seems a bit early for them and they were being watched by a parent in a nearby tree. We may be able to see them for most of the next month before they migrate to the south not to return for two or three years when they are ready to breed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The juvenile osprey are easily distinguished. Most striking are the topside wing feathers that look like they have been dipped in cream. Then there are the orangish eyes (as distinguished from the yellowish eyes of the adult). The breast band is somewhat characteristic for it usually vanishes with the male adult.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32741\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/osprey230813as.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At one point, one bird flew off. Shortly afterwards, it returned and to maintain balance, the other stood and spread its own wings.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-32742\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/osprey230813bs.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Two juvenile ospreys have left the nest just this week. It seems a bit early for them and they were being watched by a parent in a nearby tree. We may be able to see them for most of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=32740\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32740","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32740"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32740\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32745,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32740\/revisions\/32745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}